When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

Daniel Libeskind

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

Jamie Luner

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

Steven Wright

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

Christopher Darden

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

William Gibson

It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new sciences,new talks, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks.

U.G. Krishnamurti

You can do more good by being good than any other way.

John Wooden

When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.

Dan Snow

By indignities men come to dignities.

Francis Bacon

[from ]In those days also people loved, envied, sought truth and virtue, and where carried away by passions; and there was the same complex mental and moral life among the upper classes, where were in some instances even more refined than now. If we have come to believe in the perversity and coarse violence of that period, that is only because the traditions, memoirs, stories, and novels that have been handed to us, record for the most part exceptional cases of violence and brutality. To suppose that the predominant characteristic of that period was turbulence, is as unjust as it would before a man, seeing nothing but the tops of trees beyond a hill, to conclude that there was nothing to be found in that locality but trees.

Leo Tolstoy

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin